Esdras 8:27

27 también veinte tazas de oro que valían mil dáricos , y dos utensilios de fino y reluciente bronce, valiosos como el oro.

Esdras 8:27 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 8:27

Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams
Which were upwards of 1000 pounds of our money; for Bishop Cumberland says {e}, the Persian "daric", "drachma", or "drachm", weighed twenty shillings and four pence; and, according to Dr. Bernard, it exceeded one of our guineas by two grains, (See Gill on 1 Chronicles 29:7)

and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold;
which perhaps is the same with the Indian or Persian brass Aristotle ^F6 speaks of, which is so bright and pure, and free from rust, that it cannot be known by its colour from gold, and that there are among the cups of Darius such as cannot be discerned whether they are brass or gold but by the smell: the Syriac version interprets it by Corinthian brass, which was a mixture of gold, silver, and copper, made when Corinth was burnt, and which is exceeding valuable; of which Pliny ^F7 makes three sorts, very precious, and of which he says, it is in value next to, and even before silver, and almost before gold; but this sort of brass was not as yet in being: Kimchi ^F8 interprets the word here of its colour, being next to the colour of gold.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 115.
F6 De Mirabilibus, p. 704, vol. 1.
F7 Nat. Hist. l. 34. c. 1, 2.
F8 Sepher Shorash. rad. (bhu) .

Esdras 8:27 In-Context

25 y les pesé la plata, el oro y los utensilios, la ofrenda para la casa de nuestro Dios que habían ofrecido el rey, sus consejeros, sus príncipes y todo Israel que allí estaba.

26 Pesé, pues, y entregué en sus manos seiscientos cincuenta talentos de plata, y utensilios de plata que valían cien talentos, y cien talentos de oro;

27 también veinte tazas de oro que valían mil dáricos , y dos utensilios de fino y reluciente bronce, valiosos como el oro.

28 Y les dije: Vosotros estáis consagrados al SEÑOR, y los utensilios son sagrados; y la plata y el oro son ofrenda voluntaria al SEÑOR, Dios de vuestros padres.

29 Velad y guardadlos hasta que los peséis delante de los principales sacerdotes, los levitas y los jefes de casas paternas de Israel en Jerusalén, en las cámaras de la casa del SEÑOR.

Footnotes

• [a] Un drico equivale aprox. a 8.5 gramos